| For Selling
Fentanyl from Mexico Man Got 5
Years Now Money Launderer Wants
No Jail
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 20 – A man who was
indicted for selling 400 grams
and more of fentanyl was
detained on consent on July
18, 2023.
On July 12,
2024 he appeared before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Gabriel W.
Gorenstein. Inner City Press
was there, the only media in
the SDNY Mag court.
He
was now changing his plea to
guilty, before a status
conference that had been
pushed back to July 30.
Co-defendant
Ramirez through counsel wrote
in on January 8, 2025 asking
for 24 months; it is scheduled
for January 27 at 2 pm.
On January 27, he
got the two years.
On February 3,
Zapata was sentenced to the
five year minimum; he
apologized and said he is
rehabilitated, working in MDC
food service.
Judge Torres
referenced the sale of nine
kilos of fentanyl from Mexico.
On February 20
Robert Zalusky, for money
laundering, through retained
counsel asked for no prison
time when he is sentenced on
March 5.
The case is
USA v. Lara, et al.,
1:23-cr-241 (Torres)
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